Photo: Jodie Wilson from Mountain View, USA · CC BY 2.0Around Douro-Dummer, 9 historic places within 25 km
For the highest designations, the closest town to Douro-Dummer is Peterborough, 18 km off. The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 30%.
5 places of national importance within 25 km of Douro-Dummer
The mix: 5 National Historic Sites, 3 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage railway station. They belong to 4 towns, chiefly Peterborough, Otonabee-South Monaghan and Havelock. All told, 9 places are within 25 km.
The 9 nearest, within 25 km
| Peterborough Lift LockNational Historic Site · 1896–1905 · 16 km away, in Peterborough |
| St. John the Evangelist Anglican ChurchOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1837 · 17 km away, in Peterborough |
| Peterborough Drill Hall / ArmouryNational Historic Site · 1907–1910 · 17 km away, in Peterborough |
| Market Hall Performing Arts CentreDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1890 · 17 km away, in Peterborough |
| Cathedral of Saint Peter-in-ChainsDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1837 · 17 km away, in Peterborough |
| Cox TerraceNational Historic Site · 1884–1885 · 17 km away, in Peterborough |
| Serpent MoundsNational Historic Site · 22 km away, in Otonabee-South Monaghan |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Havelock, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1914–1930 · 23 km away, in Havelock |
| Peterborough PetroglyphsNational Historic Site · 25 km away, in North Kawartha |
Within 25 km of Douro-Dummer, the decades after Confederation left the most
Reaching 25 km out from Douro-Dummer: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
The earliest is St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church in Peterborough, begun in 1837. Within 25 km, 7 records give a date. 2 predate Confederation.
30% of Douro-Dummer’s homes were built before 1961
Homes built from 2016 to 2021 are 3.9% of Douro-Dummer’s, about the typical 4.1%. Half of the homes standing in Douro-Dummer today were built before 1981. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Douro-Dummer 28% of its homes, near the usual 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Douro-Dummer compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,300 to 8,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Goderich, McNab/Braeside and Saint-Roch. Their median is 0. 13 of them have none.
Douro-Dummer and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douro-Dummer | 8,379 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bridgenorth | 20,628 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Norwood | 5,308 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Curve Lake First Nation 35 | 1,428 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Peterborough | 97,834 | 6 | 3 | 1837 |
Douro-Dummer in brief
Counted by age, 30% of Douro-Dummer’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places. The other figures are unremarkable: one person of its past, Jack Coughlin (1892).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
Questions about Douro-Dummer’s history
How many historic places does Douro-Dummer have on the registers?
None inside Douro-Dummer yet. The nearest, Peterborough Lift Lock, carries the highest designation, 16 km away in Peterborough.
How old are the homes in Douro-Dummer?
The 2021 Census dates 30% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).